Chapter Summaries

Great Venerable Huangtian, Supreme Xichen, and Shi Mang trapped Taixuan in the Chaos Penal Prison Grand Formation, but Taixuan broke free and fought them for over a thousand years. Lin Yunji returned and ambushed Taixuan, helping the three venerables suppress his primordial spirit; as they discussed refining it, a voice commanded them to stop.

• Great Venerable Huangtian, Supreme Xichen, and Shi Mang discussed Taixuan’s conflicts with powerful Source Realm Supremes and prepared to face him.
• Great Venerable Huangtian and more than twenty Supremes trapped Taixuan in the Chaos Penal Prison Grand Formation, but Taixuan broke the formation with a casual tug.
• Shi Mang, Supreme Xichen, and Great Venerable Huangtian fought Taixuan for over a thousand years and gradually fell behind.
• Lin Yunji secretly approached the battlefield and ambushed Taixuan with the Universe Furnace, shattering his body.
• Shi Mang, Supreme Xichen, Great Venerable Huangtian, and Lin Yunji suppressed Taixuan’s primordial spirit and sealed it in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• As Lin Yunji and the others discussed refining Taixuan’s primordial spirit, an unknown voice ordered them to stop.

Lin Yunji and the other three venerables defeated Taixuan, then fought Immortal Venerable Xiangci after he rebuked them for joining forces. They suppressed Xiangci’s primordial spirit, and Lin Yunji thanked his allies after the battle.

• Immortal Venerable Xiangci appeared and criticized Lin Yunji and the others for fighting Taixuan four against one.
• Lin Yunji challenged Xiangci’s judgment, and Xiangci unleashed his pressure and attacked him.
• Shi Mang, Great Venerable Huangtian, and Supreme Xichen stood with Lin Yunji, who called on them to suppress Xiangci.
• Lin Yunji and the other three fought Xiangci for ten thousand years and ultimately destroyed his supreme treasure and physical body.
• The four venerables suppressed Xiangci’s primordial spirit, and Lin Yunji thanked Shi Mang, Great Venerable Huangtian, and Supreme Xichen.

After suppressing Taixuan and Immortal Venerable Xiangci, Lin Yunji interrogated Taixuan in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda and learned that he came from another surviving star domain. Taixuan revealed he had come to select people under Immortal Emperor Wuxuan’s orders and threatened that Lin Yunji’s name would be on the list.

• Shi Mang worried that suppressing Immortal Venerable Xiangci would alarm other ancient powers, but Lin Yunji said they could suppress anyone who came after them.
• Lin Yunji, Heavenly Venerable Xichen, Great Venerable Tianhuang, and Shi Mang formed an alliance to help one another against powerful enemies.
• Lin Yunji questioned Taixuan’s primordial spirit and learned that Taixuan was the eldest disciple of Immortal Emperor Wuxuan from the Jupiter Great Domain.
• Taixuan explained that the Jupiter Great Domain had escaped the destruction of the Ancient Realm like the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain, and that twelve great star domains survived.
• Taixuan revealed that he had come under Immortal Emperor Wuxuan’s decree to pick people and threatened that Lin Yunji’s name would be on the list.

Lin Yunji learned from Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable that Taixuan and Xiangci were connected to a war against another universe, not enemies seeking to conquer the Source Realm. The Primordial Expanse Ancient City was close to falling, and Lin Yunji was left facing the threat of invasion and the possible destruction or enslavement of his universe.

• Lin Yunji threatened Taixuan and questioned Xiangci about the Jupiter Great Domain, then began refining Xiangci's primordial spirit when Xiangci refused to answer.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable contacted Lin Yunji across distant realms and asked him to release Taixuan and Xiangci in exchange for a favor.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that Taixuan had come to select people to support the Primordial Expanse Ancient City, which guarded the border with another universe.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable revealed that the two universes had been at war for a hundred billion years after infiltrators from the other universe caused a catastrophe in the Source Realm.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable warned that if the Primordial Expanse Ancient City fell, their universe could be conquered, its people enslaved, or its survivors forced to flee into the void.

Lin Yunji learned that invaders from another universe had caused the Ancient Realm’s destruction and might threaten the Primordial Expanse Universe. He shared the news with the other venerables, released Taixuan and Xiangci, and left them to consider whether to fight or flee.

• Lin Yunji questioned Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable about why she had kept the invaders’ existence secret, and she said no one had asked her.
• Lin Yunji summoned Shi Mang, Great Venerable Tianhuang, and Supreme Xichen, then told them what Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable had revealed.
• The venerables agreed that Lin Yunji should release Taixuan and Xiangci, and Lin Yunji returned the treasures they had seized, though some were broken.
• Taixuan and Xiangci retrieved their treasures and flew away after Lin Yunji warned that he would kill them if they returned for revenge.
• Lin Yunji told the others that they could fight the invaders or flee to the desolate void, where they might survive in hiding.

After the other universe invaded, Lin Yunji prepared to leave for Void Heaven in response to Immortal Venerable Hongluo’s summons. There, he encountered Patriarch Cansha and asked why he had gone missing.

• Lin Yunji and Great Venerable Tianhuang agreed they would help defend the Primordial Expanse Ancient City if needed, but would hide in the universe’s remote reaches if defeat seemed certain.
• Lin Yunji returned to seclusion, determined to gain enough strength to protect the Primordial World and those close to him.
• News spread that the other universe had invaded and that the Origin Venerables had summoned cultivators to support the Primordial Expanse Ancient City.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo ordered the Venerables of the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain to gather at Void Heaven, and Lin Yunji and the other three Venerables set out.
• Before leaving, Lin Yunji fortified his cultivation ground, left a Dharma body and the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu to guard it, and entrusted puppets to Cult Master Tongtian, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, and Laozi.
• At Void Heaven, Lin Yunji saw Immortal Venerable Xiangci, Taixuan, Patriarch Cansha, and Kunsheng, then asked Patriarch Cansha why he had gone missing.

Lin Yunji waited in Void Heaven with more than a thousand Supremes for Immortal Venerable Hongluo’s summons to be addressed. When Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable announced that the deadline had passed, she seized two hundred Supremes across the Source Realm, leaving Lin Yunji and his companions terrified.

• Lin Yunji arrived in Void Heaven and watched Taixuan glare at him with killing intent, deciding he would seek a chance to kill him.
• Great Venerable Huangtian identified the armored Blood Shadow Mystic Venerable and explained his reputation and possible interest in Lin Yunji.
• More than a thousand years passed as over a thousand Supremes gathered, but Immortal Venerable Hongluo did not appear.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable announced that 211 Supremes had failed to arrive and ordered them seized.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable reached across the Source Realm with a river of spacetime and captured exactly two hundred Supremes, horrifying Lin Yunji and his companions.

Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable forced all 211 Supremes who had tried to flee back into Void Heaven and ordered every Supreme in the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain to aid the Primordial Expanse Ancient City. Taixuan revealed that Emperor Venerable Qianjie had fallen, and the chapter ended as a Supreme asked where the battle was, how the forces compared, and what the others could contribute.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable seized the 211 fleeing Supremes from across spacetime and returned them to Void Heaven, warning everyone that they could not escape if the Primordial Expanse Universe fell.
• Lin Yunji and Shi Mang recognized the terrifying power behind her Divine Ability, and the captured Supremes submitted to her decree.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable descended from the Great Cold Domain and announced that all Supremes of the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain must aid the Primordial Expanse Ancient City.
• Taixuan explained that Emperor Venerable Qianjie had fallen, making the universe's situation critical and requiring all its strength to resist enemies from another universe.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable invited questions, and a Supreme asked about the Ancient City's location, the forces defending it, the enemy numbers, and the Supremes' role.

The Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the Supremes were being sent to defend the Primordial Expanse Ancient City, then transported them through the River of Space and Time in the Supreme Hall. A mysterious figure appeared on a boat and confronted them, prompting the Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable to rise and shout at him to get lost.

• The Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the Primordial Expanse Ancient City sealed a breach between universes and that the Supremes would guard its formation and repair damage.
• The Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable pulled all the Supremes into the Supreme Hall and sent it traveling through the River of Space and Time.
• Lin Yunji used his imprint to observe the river as the Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that even Supremes could not control true space and time.
• A tributary joined the River of Space and Time, and a hazy figure on a small boat appeared and said that he had been waiting for them.
• The Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable rose from the Supreme Hall and shouted at the figure to get lost.

Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable defeated an avatar from another universe that tried to intercept the Supremes, then led them to the Primordial Expanse Ancient City. Immortal Venerable Hongluo assigned the arriving Supremes positions in the grand formation, leaving Lin Yunji and Nüwo to guard separate areas.

• A hazy figure attacked the Supreme Hall, but Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable leaped into the river of spacetime and killed him after he questioned her actions.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable reassured the Supremes that the attacker was only an avatar and that the passage between the universes was sealed.
• The Supreme Hall carried Lin Yunji and the others to the taiji-shaped vortex at the end of the river, where Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable brought them into the grand formation.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo sent each Supreme their formation position and its workings, then ordered them to guard their assigned areas.
• Lin Yunji learned that Nüwo had received different formation information, warned her and the others to be careful, and headed to his own position.

Lin Yunji took up his post in the Primordial Expanse Great Formation and discovered how badly its restrictions had deteriorated. After learning that the previous guardian, Venerable Yan, had died from attacks on the formation, Lin Yunji began repairing its damaged parts.

• Lin Yunji reached his assigned formation and found the Spirit Source Immortal Palace at its center, surrounded by cracks.
• Lin Yunji questioned the flower spirit fairies living in the palace and learned they had formed from plants cultivated by Venerable Yan.
• The flower spirit fairies told Lin Yunji that Venerable Yan had died three thousand years earlier after murderous intent seeped through during an assault by the Spirit God Universe.
• Lin Yunji allowed the flower spirit fairies to cultivate and promised to take them away if he could leave, then examined the formation with his divine sense.
• Lin Yunji found that many restrictions had failed and used his Law Power to repair them and stabilize the formation.

After spending nearly a century repairing the great formation, Lin Yunji met You Yunzi, who explained the ancient invasion by the Spirit God Universe and the danger of another assault. The chapter left Lin Yunji alarmed by how powerful even the lowest-ranked gods of that universe were.

• Lin Yunji finished repairing the great formation and received a visit from You Yunzi.
• Lin Yunji told You Yunzi he came from the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain, whose Supremes had not helped defend the Primordial Expanse for a hundred billion years.
• You Yunzi said the Spirit God Universe was stronger and described how thirteen invaders had entered the Source Realm a hundred billion years earlier.
• You Yunzi explained that the thirteen invaders were killed by Lords of the Astral Realm, whose discovery of the passage led to the creation of the Primordial Expanse Great Formation.
• You Yunzi described how the Spirit God Universe's True Gods relied on faith and Divine Sparks, and said even its lowest-ranked True Gods were roughly equivalent to Daluo Golden Immortals.

Lin Yunji learned about the Spirit God Universe’s godly realms and the threat of a possible new Great Creation God while guarding the Primordial Expanse Great Formation. The formation remained stable under constant small assaults, and Lin Yunji watched its outer defenses withstand the surging divine power.

• You Yunzi explained that the Spirit God Universe’s Great Creation Gods surpassed the known cultivation limits, and said Venerable Thousand Tribulations had died fighting one three thousand years earlier.
• You Yunzi told Lin Yunji that the Spirit God Universe had four Great Creation Gods, one of them badly wounded, but a Creation God was rumored to be attempting a breakthrough.
• You Yunzi left, and Lin Yunji continued guarding the formation by leaving a dharma body on duty while his true body cultivated in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• Lin Yunji observed that the Primordial Expanse Great Formation faced constant small assaults but no large-scale attack.
• Lin Yunji used his divine sense to see the Supremes guarding the outer layer as waves of divine power struck the formation and were dispersed through its successive layers.

Lin Yunji checked the Primordial Expanse Great Formation, visited his companions, and cultivated through more than ten million peaceful years. He broke through to the fourth level of the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method while remaining at Supreme Primordial Unity.

• Lin Yunji spoke with Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable, learned she had discarded the Supreme Hall in the void, and felt reassured by her calmness.
• Lin Yunji sent Dharma bodies through the formation to visit Shi Mang, Nüwo, You Han, Jiu Lu, and his other companions, finding their guarded positions mostly safe.
• Over thirteen million years, the other universe launched thirteen small-scale bombardments, which the formation repelled at the cost of a handful of Supremes.
• Lin Yunji cultivated in the Universe Furnace Reflection until his fleshly body broke through, and the system announced that he had reached the fourth level of the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method.

After completing his divine skill, Lin Yunji discovered that his combat power had grown immensely, though his Dao realm remained at ordinary Supreme Primordial Unity. Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable asked him to join a mission she called certain death, and he agreed after learning she would go with him, leaving a Dharma body to guard his formation as he headed to hers.

• Lin Yunji tested his newly completed divine skill but could not unleash his strength inside the Spirit Source Immortal Palace or the grand formation.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable contacted Lin Yunji, explained that his combat power had soared while his Dao realm remained at ordinary Supreme Primordial Unity, and asked him to join a mission she called certain death.
• Lin Yunji initially refused, but he agreed after Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable became angry and he insisted they would face the danger together.
• Lin Yunji created a Dharma body to guard his grand formation and departed for the formation position guarded by Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable.

Lin Yunji entered the Ice-Cold Immortal Palace and met six Peak Supreme Primordial Unity experts preparing a venture against the Spirit God Universe. After testing his strength, they accepted him as the seventh member, increasing their confidence in confronting the threat.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable drew Lin Yunji into the Primordial Expanse Great Formation and directed him to the Ice-Cold Immortal Palace.
• Lin Yunji entered the palace and found six ancient, powerful Supremes who scrutinized and pressured him.
• Lin Yunji unleashed his battle intent and killing intent, breaking through the Supremes’ pressure and earning their acceptance.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo welcomed Lin Yunji, and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable invited him to sit; he sat beside her despite her private complaint.
• The Supremes discussed their planned venture, the Spirit God Universe’s invasion, and how Lin Yunji’s addition made seven fighters and improved their chances.

Lin Yunji learned that the venerables planned to infiltrate the Spirit God Universe and assassinate a powerful expert preparing to reach the Great Creation God realm. As they prepared to travel using Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable's Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle, Lin Yunji discovered she had secretly planted a protective demon seed in his primordial spirit, while the group resolved to attack their target together.

• Lin Yunji asked what the venerables planned to do, and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable revealed they would infiltrate the Spirit God Universe and assassinate someone.
• Lin Yunji worried that the enemy would detect them at the only passage between universes, so Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable showed him her Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle, which came from her higher-level home universe.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan explained how Spirit God Universe divine sense seeds had once possessed Supremes and how the venerables created the Dao Heart Demon Seed network to detect and repel such attacks.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable admitted she had planted a demon seed in Lin Yunji's primordial spirit, and he protested that it invaded his privacy.
• Lin Yunji and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable traded secret remarks about the seed, while Emperor Venerable Wuxuan explained that the seven venerables would launch a surprise attack because their target had powerful cultivation and likely protection.

Lin Yunji agreed to join six venerables on a dangerous mission to sneak into the Spirit God Universe and assassinate a target, despite the risk of a Great Creation God protecting him. The group had completed its preparations and would wait for an attack on the Primordial Expanse Great Formation to create an opening.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable gave Lin Yunji the choice to stay behind and help protect the Primordial Expanse Great Formation if the others fell.
• Lin Yunji agreed to join the mission because he could not bear to watch Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable go to her death.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that the seven would retreat if a Great Creation God guarded their target, but otherwise they would strike together and escape using the Star Shuttle.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo reasoned that the Spirit God Universe's Great Creation Gods were occupied and unlikely to protect the target.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable said the group would wait until the Spirit God Universe attacked the Primordial Expanse Great Formation, when its defenders' attention would be focused elsewhere.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan revealed that more than a thousand Supremes from the Spirit Platform Star Domain had been gathered to fill the gaps left by the departing venerables.

After waiting for more than three million years, Lin Yunji and the seven venerables saw the Spirit God Universe launch a massive assault on the Primordial Expanse Universe. As the two sides clashed at the cosmic passage, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable prepared to take Lin Yunji and the others out in her Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle.

• Immortal Venerable Hongluo warned Lin Yunji that the Spirit God Universe's experts could sense even killing intent, so he stayed hidden with the others.
• When the Spirit God Universe's assault paused, the Primordial Expanse Universe's venerables repaired the cosmic membrane.
• A spear and waves of fist light tore open the membrane, and two Great Creation Gods led Creation God-level forces through the breach.
• The Primordial Expanse Universe's venerables attacked the invading forces, and a brutal battle erupted at the Primordial Expanse Great Formation.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable brought out her Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle and prepared to set out with Lin Yunji and the others.

Lin Yunji and the venerables used the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle to enter a higher dimension, where Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained how universes faced destruction and could transform. The group continued toward their destination, while Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable left Lin Yunji’s question about why she had come to the Primordial Expanse Universe unanswered.

• Saint Venerable Daweide severed the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle’s karma, and Immortal Venerable Hongluo led the group inside.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable activated the shuttle, which carried Lin Yunji and the venerables into a strange dimension beyond ordinary spacetime.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable told Lin Yunji that the shuttle was one of only three in her universe and that it had been created after her homeland’s third transformation.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that universes were living things that could face destruction or transform, and that the Spirit God Universe was doomed because its people sought to seize the Primordial Expanse Universe instead of saving their own.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable said her homeland had transformed four times, then fell silent when Lin Yunji asked why she had come to the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable said she had escaped for personal reasons, and Lin Yunji tactfully changed the subject.